Health & Home

A new Breastfeeding Friendly Business Toolkit is now available to assist business and organizations to support both their customers and employees to continue to breastfeed their children. Breastfeeding is one of the most important starts to healthy infant and child development.

In mid-September, members of the locally-based medical marijuana patient advocacy group M.E.N.D. (Mother Earth's Natural Design) participated in a 262-kilometre awareness walk from Peterborough, Ontario to Parliament Hill.

If you've been looking for a way to slow your busy life, a meditation seminar that will be hosted at the Meaford Public Library on September 26, might be just what you need.

A local meditation group, based in Owen Sound, who practice 'Inner Light and Sound' meditation will host the seminar free of charge. Sara Irby, one of the organizers of the seminar told The Independent, that there are many benefits to meditation.

It used to be that your local pharmacy or drug store dealt with only, well ... drugs. Oh, there may have been some furtive Saturday night condom buying, or in the case of Mr. Gower's pharmacy in It's a Wonderful Life also a soda fountain. For those of you under 50 that is so much more than a fountain that pours Coca Cola!

Be Safe With Your Snow BlowerMonday, 11 January 2016 With the first winter snowstorm arriving in the Meaford area this week, homeowners, contractors, and business owners will again rely on their snow... Read More...